Quotes from Mythopoeia — J. R. R. Tolkien
1892–1973
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Trees are not 'trees', until so named and seen —
and never were so named, till those had been
who speech's involuted breath unfurled,
faint echo and dim picture of the world.
Mythopoeia (1931)
Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme
of things not found within recorded time.
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The right has not decayed.
We make still by the law in which we're made.
Mythopoeia (1931)
In Paradise they look no more awry;
and though they make anew, they make no lie.
Be sure they still will make, not being dead,
and poets shall have flames upon their head,
and harps whereon their faultless fingers fall:
there each shall choose for ever from the All.
Mythopoeia (1931)
The heart of man is not compound of lies,
but draws some wisdom from the only Wise,
and still recalls him. Though now long estranged,
man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.
Mythopoeia (1931)
In Paradise they no more look awry;
and though they make anew, they make no lie.
Be sure they still will make, not being dead,
and poets shall have flames upon their head,
and harps whereon their faultless fingers fall:
there each shall choose for ever from the All.
Mythopoeia (1931)